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Christopher Hitchens

Changing the Conversation on Religion (Before it Kills Us All)

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 12.29.2009 | Living

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Frank Schaeffer

We urgently need to make that conversation center on embracing paradox rather than seeking -- then trying to impose by force and or "reason" -- our pet certainties on others.

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The Religious Decade: 2000 To 2010

Paul Raushenbush | Posted 12.23.2009 | Living

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Paul Raushenbush

The following 10 stories show the breadth of religious actors and events and how deeply they affected the last 10 years of American and world history.

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Christopher Hitchens Slams Palin: 'A Disgraceful Opportunist And Real Moral Coward' (VIDEO)

Posted 12.15.2009 | Politics

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Christopher Hitchens followed up his long Slate column detailing the dangers of Sarah Palin's brand of populism with more harsh criticism on MSNBC's M...

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Hitchens, Greenwald Debate Afghan Surge: 'We're Being Played For Suckers By Pakistani Elite' (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 12.10.2009 | World

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Christopher Hitchens, Glenn Greenwald and KT McFarland were on MSNBC's "Morning Meeting" to discuss President Obama's plan to escalate the war in Afgh...

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Top 10 Reasons This Woman Can't Write for Late Night Comedy Shows

Catie Lazarus | Posted 11.18.2009 | Comedy

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Catie Lazarus

My lady sensibility is limited to menstruation (hilarious), babies (adorable), and unicorns mating (adorably hilarious).

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Collision: Hitchens Debates Conservative Evangelical, Nothing Happens

Evan Derkacz | Posted 11.04.2009 | Home

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Evan Derkacz

The following is the opening to an article by philosophy professor Eric Reitan.

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What A Real Town Hall Looks Like

Alex Green | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

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Alex Green

Can this be done anywhere? Yes. Is it without difficulty? No. But is it easier than we think to organize 25 political figures over four weeks with a small group and no money? Yes.

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Christopher Hitchens Is Absurd

Matt Browner Hamlin | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living

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Matt Browner Hamlin

Only in the western mind does the existence of deity contradict science, and truth be told, not even there. There is nothing in western scientific thought that denies deity.

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Collision: Is Religion Absurd or Good for the World?

Christopher Hitchens | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living

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Christopher Hitchens

Are our morals dictated to us by a supreme entity, or do discoveries made by science and reason make Atheism a natural conclusion? You decide.

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Christopher Hitchens Pans Obama's Nobel Prize: Obama Looked "All Moist And Bambi-Like" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics

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On MSNBC's Morning Joe Christopher Hitchens panned the decision to award to President Obama the Nobel Peace Prize, calling it the first virtual award:...

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Olivia Wilde's Enviable Life: Married To A Prince, Had Hitchens As A Babysitter, Knows Mick Jagger And More

Huffington Post | Posted 11.16.2009 | Entertainment

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Olivia Wilde may still be best known for making out with Mischa Barton on "The O.C." and playing a bisexual doctor on "House," but she's on the cover ...

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Christopher Hitchens' Plan To Serenade Graydon Carter In "Seductively Tight, Beaded Sheath Dress" Foiled

WWD | Posted 08.16.2009 | Media

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A few inspired staffers had called in a seductively tight, beaded sheath dress for a mystery staffer to do a kind of "Happy Birthday Mr. President" nu...

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Why the "New Atheists" are Right-Wing on Foreign Policy

Robert Wright | Posted 08.13.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Religion, Suicide Bombers, Atheism, Islamic Radicalism, Terrorism, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, The Evolution of God, Religion and Politics, Atheists, Adolf Hitler, Robert Wright, Richard Dawkins, World News
Robert Wright

It must strike progressive atheists as a stroke of bad luck that Christopher Hitchens, leading atheist spokesperson, happens to have hawkish views on foreign policy.

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Media Elite Turn Out For Graydon Carter's Tony Blair Interview At MoMA (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post | Posted 07.25.2009 | Media

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Tuesday night, Tony Blair answered questions from Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter at an A-list event at New York's Museum of Modern Art. The two discusse...

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A Holy World War, NBA-Style

Rob Asghar | Posted 07.10.2009 | World

Read More: Religion, Atheists, Religion and Science, Atheism, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, World News
Rob Asghar

Yahweh's God Squad finds itself looking uphill in the Worldview Championship Series, facing its biggest deficit since the Pharaohs' dynasty. Scrappy underdog Team Atheism has bolted to a lead in the series.

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Become a Guantanamo Detainee - In Second Life

Blaise Zerega | Posted 06.20.2009 | Entertainment

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Blaise Zerega

A recent conference showcased new tools to expose war crimes and other serious violations of human rights and to disseminate this information in real time throughout the world.

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Christopher Hitchens Rips Wanda Sykes: "The Black Dyke Got It Wrong"

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 06.11.2009 | Media

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Buried at the end of Chris Rovzar and Jada Yuan's fantastic White House Correspondents' Association Dinner party report is an incendiary quote from Ch...

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Christopher Hitchens On Why Obama Cited Churchill On Torture

Slate | Christopher Hitchens | Posted 06.04.2009 | Politics

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He didn't get the attention he deserved for it, but President Obama was very cleverly fusing liberal principles with an appeal to the basic conservati...

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Torture: "It's Perfectly Legal -- But We Don't Do It"

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics

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Joseph A. Palermo

All of the torturers from the world's worst, most brutal regimes can now rise up and proclaim their solidarity with the United States: "We Are All Americans Now!"

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Morality Originates in Religion...Not

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 05.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Religion, Christianity, Morality, Religiosity, Biological Destiny, Destiny, Biology, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Richard Dawins, Higher Power, Heaven and Hell, God, Heaven, Hell, Living News
Jeff Schweitzer

Morality is our biological destiny, not a gift from god.

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What Do a Rabbit, Colored Eggs and Candy Have to Do With Jesus? The History of Easter Revealed

Kari Henley | Posted 05.11.2009 | Living

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Kari Henley

Some old guy makes up a weird story about a goddess who never existed who turns a bird into a rabbit that lays colored eggs; and it morphs into a mega-watt holiday celebrated the modern world over.

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Christopher Hitchens Debates Kenneth Blackwell About Religious Influence In America (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 05.09.2009 | Living

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Christopher Hitchens was a guest on Hardball tonight along with Kenneth Blackwell, from the Family Research Council, to discuss Newsweek's recent cove...

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Christopher Hitchens and the Killer Jews

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 05.02.2009 | Living

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Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

To read Hitchens these days is to be transported to an alternate universe where religious Jews are often terrorists inspired by racist Jewish ideology that is fomented by their Rabbis.

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Christopher Hitchens: How I Was Beat Up By Fascist Bullies In Lebanon

Vanity Fair | Posted 04.29.2009 | Media

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As Arab thoroughfares go, Hamra Street in the center of Beirut is probably the most chic of them all. International in flavor, cosmopolitan in charact...

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This Week in Magazines: Marty Peretz Defends Jim Cramer, While Chris Hitchens Revives Karl Marx

James Warren | Posted 04.15.2009 | Media

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James Warren

The once and future owner of the New Republic, contravenes the conventional wisdom on CNBC host Jim Cramer amid his faceoff with Jon Stewart.

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